Peter Honey was from Liverpool and employed as an apprentice salesman in the raw cotton trade prior to enlisting in the Armed Forces. Private Honey volunteered for Special Service in 1940 and was posted to No.4 Independent Company ultimately joining No.2 Commando 5 Troop. Awarded the Military Medal for gallant and distinguished service during Operation Chariot at St. Nazaire 28 March 1942. Embarked on HMS Campbeltown. Reported missing after the raid, later found to have been wounded and a prisoner of war.

"On the 28 March 1942, during the commando raid on St. Nazaire, France, Pte. Honey was in a small protection party whose duty it was to protect demolition parties at work on the destruction of the Dry Dock Installations.

It was due to his personal initiative and bravery that the enemy machine gun position housed on the roof of a building, and sited in such a position that it was a potential danger to the demolition parties, was successfully destroyed. The demolition party were then allowed to continue their work unhampered and to continue their task.

Throughout the whole five hours of the action Pte Honey was always to be seen where the fighting was the thickest; he was continually dashing from building to building seeking and destroying his enemy.

The particular area in which this soldier had to fight was under the heaviest of fire and his individual bravery, unflinching devotion to duty and aggressiveness were of the first order.

He was a true example to all and his drive and initiative remain imprinted in the minds of all who saw him." *